Another Abortion Doc Fears He's Next
One of the few remaining late-term abortion providers in the country has told that he fears he could be "next" following this weekend's murder of controversial abortion doctor George Tiller.
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US Swine Flu Cases Hit all 50 States
Cases of the new H1N1 flu virus have now been found in all 50 U.S. states and tests have confirmed the virus in more than 10,000 people across the nation, U.S. officials said on Monday.
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Death in Suburbs Shows Heroin’s Spread
For five hours, Dana Smith huddled stunned and bewildered in her suburban living room while the body of her son Arthur Eisel IV, 31, lay slumped in an upstairs bathroom, next to a hypodermic needle.
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Oregon Dad Kills 2 Kids, Self
A 45-year-old father found dead with his two children along an Oregon hiking trail is believed to have shot them before killing himself, police said.
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Controversial Abortion Doctor Shot Dead
George Tiller, a controversial abortion doctor from Kansas who performed the so-called "late-term" abortion was killed at a church, local media report.
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House Considering Censoring Internet
The Internet has given average Americans unparalleled access to information that the elites historically have kept under wraps by controlling access to it. Now, Congress is trying to rein in that access by making it so that the government can go after someone for hurting another person’s feelings on the World Wide Web.
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Katrina Victims to be Evicted again
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has decided to enforce a June 1 date — originally established by the Bush administration — for the eviction of several thousand victims of Hurricane Katrina who are still living in temporary trailers after nearly four years.
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Convicts Escape Ark Prison Dressed as Guards
Two convicted murderers put on corrections-officer uniforms and walked out of an Arkansas prison during a shift change, officials said Saturday as they searched for the men.
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NY Cop Shoots Off-duty Colleague
A police officer had just opened fire on a man caught running through a desolate stretch of Harlem with a gun in his hand.
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Texan Guilty of Trying to Sell Girl, 5, for Sex
A federal jury in Texas convicted a San Antonio man of trying to sell his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter to child pornographers in exchange for a used car and an apartment.
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Leaders of Muslim Charity Sentenced to 65 Years
Two leaders of what was once the largest Muslim charity in the US have been sentenced to 65 years in jail for supporting Palestinian resistant group Hamas.
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Two-year-old Calif Boy Shot Dead by Sister
A small girl in Bakersfield California, aged three, has accidentally shot and killed her two-year-old brother.
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Judge Dredd Weapon may Come to Life
The idea behind a weapon used in a Sylvester Stallone movie comes to realize as the US Army moves to test a new high-tech weapon used against targets out of line of sight.
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US Drug Habit Keeps Mexican War Boiling
The Mexican drug cartels battling viciously to expand and survive have a powerful financial incentive: Across the border to the north is a market for illegal drugs unsurpassed for its wealth, diversity and voraciousness.
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Retired Chef Caught up in Gang Sweep
As Ramon Huerta stood shirtless and shivering in the frontyard of the Pico Rivera house he's called home for more than four decades, the 64-year-old retired chef struggled to comprehend the questions being shouted by the heavily armed police who began pounding on his front door some time before dawn.
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Explosion Rocks New York Starbucks
A loud explosion has blown out the windows of a Starbucks coffee shop in New York but caused no injuries, police say.
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NYPD Forensic Investigator Stabbed to Death
Michelle Lee's career was solving crimes. Working as a forensic investigator for the New York Police Department, she was training to do the type of "CSI" work made famous on television.
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Arizona Party Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 6 Hurt
Two people were killed and six others — two of them children — were wounded in a shooting at a high school graduation party, police said Sunday.
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US Mom Accused in Drowning of 4-year-old
An Oregon mother has been arrested in the drowning of her 4-year-old son after the boy and his 7-year-old sister ended up in the chilly Williamette River.
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LA Gang Case Rekindles Racism Debate
Federal prosecutors called their sweeping indictment of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang the biggest takedown of its kind in U.S. history.
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US Men Charged over Synagogue Plot
The US authorities have arrested four men over a suspected plot to bomb Jewish targets in New York and to shoot down military aircraft with shoulder-fired missiles.
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5 US Officers Fired for Taped Beating
Five Birmingham police officers were fired Wednesday for beating an apparently unconscious suspect after a roadway chase, an attack caught on a patrol car videotape that didn't surface publicly for a year.
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US Congress Allows Loaded Guns in National Parks
The US Congress has voted to allow people to carry loaded weapons in national parks and wildlife refuges, in a major setback to gun control efforts.
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Man Shot in Harvard Dorm Dies
A 21-year-old man shot inside a Harvard University dormitory while students studied for finals died Tuesday.
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More Abuse at Texas School for Disabled
At least 40 employees were fired or resigned over abuse or neglect allegations at a state-run school where some workers are accused of forcing the mentally and developmentally disabled residents into fights, a newspaper found.
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Ill. Sheriff Busted for Drug Dealing
Sheriff Raymond M. Martin has been the law for nearly 20 years in a struggling southern Illinois county. But federal prosecutors say he's been breaking it lately by peddling pounds of pot, some seized by his own department, often in uniform and from his patrol vehicle.
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Man Shot Near Harvard University Dorm
A man has been shot outside a Harvard University dormitory.
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Teen Fires at Teacher, Shoots Self
Louisiana middle-school student who stormed into a classroom Monday and fired a gunshot over a teacher's head, then shot himself in a bathroom had detailed plans for a rampage in a journal and suicide note, authorities said.
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Boom in Tiny Bedbugs Causing Big Trouble
The biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II has sent a collective shudder among apartment dwellers, college students and business travelers across the U.S.
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Playground Sand Grave of Boy
Forensic experts searched a public park late into the night for evidence of who buried the body of a little boy in the playground's sand.
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CDC: 50,000 Americans Caught Swine Flu
A top official in the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has declared that at least 50,000 Americans may have contracted the swine influenza bug.
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LA Teachers Arrested for Protesting Job Cut
Dozens of teachers and a union leader have been arrested in Los Angeles as educators took to the streets to protest looming job cuts.
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US Reports 5th Swine Flu Death
US health officials have reported the fifth swine flu death in the country, where 4,714 possible and confirmed cases of the disease have been identified.
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McCain: Gun Limits won't Stop Drug Cartels
The drug war in Mexico shouldn't be used as an excuse to try to restrict American gun rights, Sen. John McCain said Friday at the National Rifle Association's convention.
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Deaths of 9 Haitian Migrants Mourned
The Rev. Reginald Jean-Mary's voice faded as he contemplated what to tell his parishioners at a prayer service Friday for the Haitian migrants aboard a boat that capsized off Florida's coast.
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Man Charged with Kidnap, Assault of 4
A Chicago man kidnapped and sexually assaulted two women and two teenage girls over a 12-hour span, playing Russian roulette with the oldest woman and letting his pit bull attack them, authorities said.
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Ex-Archbishop Admits he's Gay
A Roman Catholic archbishop who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal involving a man describes his struggles with being gay in an upcoming memoir about his decades serving the church.
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Ga Professor Shot Wife's Friend First
A Georgia professor shot and killed his wife's friend outside a community theater before turning the gun on her and a third person, authorities said Tuesday as they released new details on the slayings.
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Hate-crime Acquittal Becomes Rallying Cry
The acquittal of white Pennsylvania teenagers of all serious charges this month in the death of Luis Ramirez has become a rallying cry for justice among Hispanics who feel increasingly under attack here in America. It also has exposed difficulties in enforcing hate crime laws designed to keep minorities from becoming targets.
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US Judge Gets 3 Years in Sex Case
A federal judge was sentenced Monday to nearly three years in prison for lying to investigators about sexually abusing two female employees, who said they feared him so much they hid from him in the courthouse.
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After Fargo's Flood, 6 Million Sandbags Remain
Millions of bags filled with sand were used to battle record flood crests in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn. But now that the flood risk is over, city leaders wonder: Where will the sand go?
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Michigan Woman Assaulted in Apartment
Authorities in Michigan say a man posing as a home health care worker sexually assaulted a 97-year-old woman.
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US Reports 3rd Swine Flu Fatality
A man in Washington has died of swine flu to bring the total death toll from the virus in the United States to three, health officials report.
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Plane Crash Kills 5 in Nevada
A plane crash in western Nevada in the United States has killed all five people on board, according to local authorities.
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3.5m US Children Face Risk of Hunger
More than 3.5 million American children under the age of five are facing the risk of hunger, an anti-hunger NGO suggests in a study.
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Murderous US Prof Found Dead
Georgia forensic medics confirm a recently-found body as belonging to the professor who had allegedly murdered three people in the northeastern Athens-Clarke County.
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Rabbi Gets 30 Years for Abusing Daughter
An American rabbi is handed down a 30-year jail term for abusing his own daughter after months-long maneuvers with the judicial and federal authorities.
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Child Welfare Official Jailed for Kid Porn
A former spokesman for Florida's child welfare agency was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison Friday for taking nude photos of teenage boys, including a 16-year-old under the agency's care.
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Couple Accused of Shooting 4
A couple has been accused of opening fire and wounding four people — including a 7-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl .
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Thousands Flee as Wildfires Spread in Calif
Low humidity, gusty winds and severe drought have once again turned the costal cities of Southern California to a fire zone, forcing some 12,000 residents to evacuate.
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